Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres

"King's pitch for the indebtedness of the genres we know well—the novel, the biography, the magazine piece—to letter writing is stylish and convincing." —Christina Lupton, author of Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century

In Writing to the World, Rachael Scarborough King examines the shift from manuscript to print media culture in the long eighteenth century. She introduces the concept of the "bridge genre," which enables such change by transferring existing textual convent...